Digital Disruption's Impact on UK Construction Industry: Data Role

This presentation investigates the profound effects of digital disruption on the UK construction industry, emphasizing the critical role of data as a business tool. It examines the impact of technologies such as 3D printing, cloud computing, project management software, mobile device management, and BIM on project efficiency and management. The presentation explores the types of jobs and skills that are emerging due to these technological advancements, referencing the Future of Jobs Report. It includes an online questionnaire to gauge perspectives on digital disruption and a discussion guide for gathering insights from industry professionals. The conclusion highlights the transformative changes in business operations, employment trends, and growth within the construction sector, driven by new technologies and socio-economic factors.

The Role Of Information and Data within
Construction Industry

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Digital Disruption
• Impact of digital disruption on the construction industry
• Types of jobs and skills
• Online research questionnaire
• Discussion guide
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
This presentation is going to reveal the impact of
digital disruption on construction industry of UK,
include the role of data which has taken as a
business tool. A description is made on role of big
data and information in given sector, in terms of
types of jobs and skills required for building a
successful career in it.

Digital Disruption
Digital disruption refers to the change which occurs
when new technologies and business models, impact on
value proposition of existing goods and services. Such
digital innovations include machine learning, big data,
internet of things and more, that highly affects the
expectations and behaviour of consumers

Impact of digital disruption on the
construction industry
In construction industry, which having aggregate sales
in millions, like other firms also effected highly by
technology disruption. 3D printing is one of such
example that has been promoted, as potential digital
disruptor in construction.

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Since as major project of construction requires an
extensive exchange of information and big data,
between all associated people on regular basis.
Therefore, it assists employers of construction industry
to adopt various forms of new technology, for achieving
quality goals, efficiency of time and cost by delivering
project on set schedule

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Cloud computing – It has a strong appeal within
construction industry, with many digital benefits
because of constant change of workers as well as
transformation of unproductive sites into new job site
locations.

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Project management software – It allows the
contractors for managing complicated business
processes through planning, organizing,
controlling and managing entire resource pools.
Construction companies are required to deliver
projects on time and according to budget.

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Mobile device management - In construction industry,
mobile devices are used as main line of communication
during entire project, for transforming information
through emails, texts, phone calls and more.

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BIM (Business Information Modelling: For speeding
up the construction project and assembles the building
process, BIM modelling help this industry to ensure that
appropriate connections would be aligned between
building units within a few millimetres. This would
make it easy to plug together the completed units.

Types of Job and skills
Big data, information and predictive analytics have the
huge potential for creating value to business of
construction industry. Therefore, digital disruption in
this sense, has reshaped the complete industry, where to
begin with technologies like robotics, cloud computing,
3D printing and more, assists people to develop
technical knowledge and skills to work in such
environment.

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The Future of Jobs Report refers to be the first step in
terms of becoming the specific about digital disruption.
It taps mainly into the knowledge of people at
workplace, who are placed for observing dynamics of
workforces, such as Chief Human Resources, Strategy
Officers and IT managers. Digital changes specifically
have made changes under type of jobs and skills
required to work with new technologies.

Online Questionnaire
Question 1: Which factor has mainly forced the construction industry to adopt digital
technologies?
a) Digital disruption
b) Socio-economic and demographic
c) Both
Question 2: As per your opinion, how digital disruption impact on trends of
employment in construction industry?
a) Positive
b) Negative
c) Not determined
Question 3: Which technology has highest adoption range in global construction
companies?
a) Building Information Modelling
b) Project Management Software
c) Data analytics
d) None of the above

Discussion guide
For getting right information about role of data analytics
in construction industry and impact of digital disruption,
firstly researcher will work on communication and
research skills. This would help in taking face-to-face
interviews of industrial professionals who are highly
experienced in their respective field. Descriptive
statistical method will be used for analysing viewpoint
of chosen respondent in present interview.

CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from this presentation, that
emerging on new technologies and socio-economic
factors which force construction companies to
utilise old techniques in new way, has completely
transformed entire business operations. It has not
only affected the way of handling and delivering
the construction project, but has also drive changes
in employment trend and growth.

REFERENCES
Awwad, K.A., Shibani, A. and Ghostin, M., 2020. Exploring the critical success
factors influencing BIM level 2 implementation in the UK construction industry:
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Love, P.E., Matthews, J. and Zhou, J., 2020. Is it just too good to be true?
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